Securely connect and manage your LLM providers with custom API credentials.
Overview
Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) provides a secure way to add, connect, and manage API credentials for your preferred Large Language Model (LLM) providers. By default, Kognitos uses OpenAI and Gemini, but BYOM allows you to configure alternative or custom providers at the agent level.
Follow these steps to configure an LLM provider in Kognitos:
Note: BYOM must be configured separately for each agent.
1
Navigate to BYOM
Click the user icon 👤 in the top right corner and select BYOM from the dropdown menu.
2
Choose a Provider
Under Add an LLM provider, click Set Up next to the provider you wish to configure (e.g., OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Custom, etc.).
3
Enter API Credentials
Enter the required credentials for the selected provider (e.g., API key, service account JSON, project ID, region). Required fields vary by provider.
4
Save Configuration
Click Save Changes to apply your configuration.
Usage
After configuring models through BYOM, automations will use your stored credentials when executing LLM procedures.
Standard Providers
For standard providers like OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Anthropic, reference the model directly in your automation. The example below uses the extract data procedure with an OpenAI model:
Custom Providers
For custom models, specify the provider ID, indented within the LLM procedure:
For example:
Retrieve the ID from the BYOM interface after saving a custom LLM configuration:
extract data from the document
the dpi is 144
the openai model is "gpt-4.1-mini"
the first field is "po number"
the first field's format is "string"
the first field's rule is "the po number has 10 characters"
the model provider is "provider-id"
extract data from the document
the model provider is "custom-custom-llm-1764100945699-r6jisd"
the first field is "invoice number"
the first field's format is "string"
